Michael Caine recalls that even during the Swinging 60s in London, Paul mccartney was a bit of a prude.

Michael Caine recalls that even during the Swinging 60s in London, Paul mccartney was a bit of a prude.

Jane Asher, then Paul's girlfriend, played Caine's girlfriend in the 1966 film Alfie. "We did a scene where we'd been to bed together and she was wearing my shirt in the morning like a night shirt," Caine told Red Carpet magazine.

"They came in and got one of my other shirts and cut the tail off and put an extra length on. I asked, `What for?' They said that Paul didn't want her showing so much leg."

* With Catherine Zeta-Jones expecting their second baby, Michael Douglas is brushing up on his basketball skills as he prepares to go back to work.

He is to star in the romantic comedy As Told To....in which he will play a professional basketball coach who battles and falls in love with the ghostwriter hired to help him with his autobiography.

The former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, Pat Riley, has been hired as a consultant to help Douglas look the part.

Douglas plans to keep working, according to Daily Variety, and will follow As Told To...with the political thriller The Sentinel and a remake of the 1972 thriller The Mechanic, with Douglas in the role originally played by Charles Bronson.

* Antonio Banderas is fulfilling his ambition to star in a Broadway musical.

The Spanish actor, who is married to Melanie Griffith, opens in April in Nine, a revival of the musical based on Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8 1/2.

"Broadway musicals and London's West End are the reason I am an actor," he told the New York Post. "This is something I would have loved to do a long time ago but I didn't have the preparation before."

Chita Rivera, 70, who co-stars in the revival, said of him: "He dances the tango like, `Oh, my God!' There's a moment where I just look at the women in the audience and think, `i've got him and you haven't'."